Star Trek's "A Piece of the Action" cake is actually kind of geeky-cool...if someone hadn't defaced it with the horrid red writing! One of my favorite episodes, aside from the tribbles. Wait! Hold the presses! THAT'S A BLEEDING TRIBBLE!!!

I think the bleeding cottonball has to do with the episode where Kirk passed off Spock's ears by saying he got his head stuck in a cotton-picker as a child. I can't remember if taht was A Piece of the Action or The City on the Edge of Forever.

It is a flying piece of cotton from the Tinkerbell movie. She makes a balloon out of cotton using her pixie dust to fly over Neverland to find the magic mirror to make a wish and get back her broken moonstone for her septor before the Autumn Revelry. http://cityguideny.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19215

Did anyone else see MEL B's show on Style the other night? Her husband order a cake for her daughter's graduation and told them that he wanted "PHOENIX" in the middle. What they got was "PHOENIX IN THE MIDDLE." I immediately thought of Cake Wrecks!

You know, I think Donna is right, the Star Trek cake does look like it's supposed to represent the classic episode "A Piece of the Action." At first I couldn't figure out what was up with the bleeding cotton ball, but maybe it's supposed to be a carnation, like the gangsters wore on their lapels. The bleeding is a bit much, since the show was back in the 60's and they didn't show much blood, but there was a fair amount of mowing guys down with tommy guns.

The horrible red writing really wrecks what otherwise is a kind of cool cake.

See, if you stare hard (until your eyes dry out and everything gets blurry) it kind of looks like a cloudy planet, and the green thing is a Romulan warbird firing plasma weapons. Try squinting. And tilting your head to the side. and drinking. Still not seeing it? Well, at least you have an excuse for drinking.

The recipient of this cake is just lucky the wreckerator didn't try to design "A Pizza Reaction".

Yeah, I was thinking cotton ball, too. The sad thing was I actually found myself spending like 10 minutes trying to figure out if it was some sort of picture rebus--"hmmm, trek-gun cotton-hat. No, ship-gun boll-hat. Naw . . ." before realizing that I was completely wasting my time.

See, "Boyage" is what a young fellow has in between infancy and adulthood, so for somebody's third birthday, you could wish him a "Bon Boyage."

Actually, I suspect that the "Boyage" cakes were decorated by people whose native language is Spanish. In Spanish, "b" and "v" represent the same sound, so Spanish speakers often confuse the two letters when they write, especially if it's an unfamiliar word. "Bon voyage" in Spanish is "Buen Viaje," by the way (or, I guess you could write it "Vuen Biaje," although I've never seen it that way.

WV: peristed. No matter how many times the baker tried, spelling errors peristed.

My guess is the decorators who wrote "Boyage" were native Spanish speakers. "V" is pronounced like "B" in Spanish. Or the person ordering the cake was a native Spanish speaker and the decorator was just giving them what they asked for!

I gotta tell you, I started to order a cake over the phone about a year ago after I started reading Cake Wrecks and I wanted "Bon Voyage" on it. I quite literally had nearly the same phone conversation and after the third attempt, I had a vision of this cake at the top of your post the next week. I gave up and ordered "Good Job." Maybe I don't really deserve to read Cake Wrecks. ;)

OMG, this totally reminds me of the last episode of "Will and Grace"Jack is in a TV show called "The Badge" so Karen has a huge posted made for him. It comes back saying the Vadge. Karen says, "hhhmmm, maybe I should have said 'b' as in boy instead of 'b' as in bagina."LOL

Ok,here is my theory on the "Bon Boyage" cakes. The sound of "b" and "v" is very similar in languages like Tagalog and Spanish. I'm guessing the common thread that accounts for the same mistake being made multiple times is that the decorators have one of these or similar languages as their first language.

@ Starry, I checked out that link and I almost had Coke (the soda, not the powder) coming through my nose. Thanks for posting. And thanks CQ for the great post today. I needed the laugh after dealing with my H.O.A.

Hmmm, maybe I should try a cake letter (like the cake invoice) when dealing with them, the cake might soften the blow of my stinging sarcasm...

C'mon, that third cake is so obvious. Mike is joining Starfleet and will be posted on the Enterprise. He and Indiana Jones have been chosen to head up a mission against the vicious natives of the planet Cottonfield. Using machine guns, they plan to squelch the Cottonfieldians' insidious plan to substitute all of our cotton underwear with nylon. Seriously...nobody else got that?

Ahem *pushes up her thick nerd glasses* People in previous comments suggested Spanish and Tagalog as the wreckator's native language, but I think it could easily happen to a native English speaker as well - I happened to find this site, where it is explained better than I could :)http://www.pronuncian.com/podcast.aspx?Episode=111Basically, /b/ and /v/ are not that different, phonetically; think about the word play 'very berry', 'berry good', and other variations.

Urban Dictionary gives this as one meaning for "boyage":Visit to see a boyfriend or fling, requiring plane, train or automobile, and therefore more time and effort intensive than the average boo*y call.

Black roses twice was too creepy so I looked it up quick: according to Wikipedia (first place I look when I'm lazy), black roses symbolize "death, hatred, revenge, sorrow or mourning. It can also be used when conveying a farewell." Huh. Still creepy. As in farewell-we-are-sending-you-to-your-doom creepy.

Hmm I guess in the wreckerators world voyage is boyage.. can't seem to figure out why they have such a hard time with that word. That bleeding cauliflower looks like a bridal bouquet gone bad otherwise that cake was ok lol my hubby would have loved the Star Trek stuff on it. I wonder if anyone told the wreckerators to get a dictionary if they don't know how to spell a word lol. Or just Google it.. if they can.

#2 Are those prunes?! What sort of 'voiage' is Brian being sent on, anyway?

#3 I think it is a rebus. The decorator did a decent job on the various symbols, actually. How many wreckerators would get the Enterprise right without resorting to flotsam? As to what the rebus says...? Someone knows the story on this cake. How can they be induced to come forward?

Rebus could be a way to get messages onto cakes without worrying about spelling, parsing errors, strange punctuation, etc. though it does rely heavily on the artistic ability of the person with the icing bag. In the CW universe, that's a real craps shoot.

#4 'Bon Voyge' from Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Cakes. Now where did I put those Bonine tablets?

#5 Extraneous quotation marks (the left ones are right on the border of the print) and misspelling. What more could Paul want?

#7 "Good Bay Playre"? For someone with the Packers, perhaps? And again with the prunes. Oy!

It's hard to get too worked up about 'bon boyage' when there are so many variations on 'voila', most of them phonetic. No wonder the French are snooty toward us. Not that one is likely to see 'voila' on a cake, but then, CW has opened up whole new vistas of things I never thought I'd see...

Kind of like the old 'Who's on first base" joke. I like it. Too bad you can't get something simple when they are so inclined to over-compensate for their previous short-comings. By the end of the day, taking what you can get seems like a good idea.

I can't believe they have that reference on that cake. The "bleeding cauliflower" is from a famous scene inspaghetti western history. It was a white carnation from the final shoot out in Sergio Corbucci's The Mercenary.

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